دشت

Cognate with Sanskrit दुष्ट (duṣṭa).

دشت • (došt) (comparative دشت‌تر‎, superlative دشت‌ترین‎)

1. evil, wicked
2. foul, offensive

From Middle Persian dšt' (dašt, “desert, field, plain”). Compare Armenian դաշտ (dašt, “plain, field”), an Iranian borrowing.

دشت • (dašt) (plural دشت‌ها‎ (dašt-hâ))

1. plain, field
2. desert
3. burial ground
4. chessboard
5. dry musk

• Arabic: دست‎ (dast)
• Urdu: دشت‎ (dašt)

From Middle Persian dšn' (dašn, “right hand”), from Proto-Iranian *dášinah, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dáĉšinas, from Proto-Indo-European *deḱs-i-no-s, from *deḱs- (“right (side)”).

• دشن‎ (dašn)

دشت • (dašt) (plural دشت‌ها‎ (dašt-hâ))

1. first income

• Arabic: داشن‎ (dāšan)

• دستلاف‎ (dastlāf)
• سفته‎ (safte)

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “دشت”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul

Borrowed from Persian دشت‎ (dašt).

• IPA^(key): /d̪əʃt̪/

دشت • (daśt) m (Hindi spelling दश्त)

1. desert
2. wasteland, an arid plain